NOY race 56:54 [4] 5.2 km (10:57 / km)
NOY3 at Southams.
Still feeling the effects of cold/flu/whatever I was hesitant to do the medium hard and very much considered the shorter course. Eventually opted for the medium perhaps the fact that there were no maps left should have made me reverse my decision but I borrowed a map and headed off.
I have set and controlled here a number of times, so reckoned I knew it fairly well. Tok off from the start and just straight lined it instead of taking the track and jumping in at a known point. Ran past the control perhaps a tad high and subsequently didn't see it. Ended up losng about 2 minutes but from there on in I settled down and just ran basically straight to them with the exception of the finish where I saw the green flags and my brain said finish. (Idiot brain - red means finish) so lost a few seconds there.
Considering my lack of running and general lack of good health I would have to say I was fairly happy to be reasonably competitive today.
Hope to shake this thing before Lithgow next weekend!!!!!